The Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Reference Book of the Year 2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in Scripture 2020 Catholic Press Association third place award for best new religious book series This reading of Mark's Gospel engages this ancient text from the perspective of contemporary feminist concerns to expose and resist all forms of domination that prevent the full flourishing of all humans and all creation. Accordingly, it foregrounds the Gospel's constructions of gender in intersectionality with the visions, structures, practices, and personnel of Roman imperial power. This reading embraces a rich tradition of feminist scholarship on the Gospel, as well as masculinity studies, particularly pervasive hegemonic masculinity. Its politically engaged discussion of Mark's Gospel provides a resource for clergy, students, and laity concerned with contemporary constructions of gender, power, and a world in which all might experience fullness of life.

2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the Year In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about women and to undercut the negative ones. By grouping Proverbs together around common issues, the reader is called to consider the perennial moral questions of wealth and poverty, diligence and laziness, and integrity and corruption, as well as the relationship among these values. The result is much more complex and has greater depth than the random list of bromides that most of Proverbs is often thought to be. This volume opens up a multi-dimensional spiritual puzzle.

The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a "traditional" Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society. His gender-specific beliefs carry over into his teachings for the house churches, where only free married men are eligible to serve as leaders, teachers, and preachers, while women are expected to take up the subordinate female domestic roles of wife, mother, and household manager. This volume encourages a deeper engagement with the difficult issues-gender, race, and power-raised by these letters. By studying the Pastoral Letters with our minds sharpened and our hearts turned toward a generous freedom, we can struggle most productively with the influences of their teachings, past and present, and we can create a future church and a future world that are more just, truly inclusive, and indelibly marked by God's grace. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the world, showing the importance of social location in the process of interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: keine, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Immer kurzlebigere Trends, immer mehr austauschbare Produktvariationen, ein permanent wachsendes Leistungsangebot und immer mehr Marken, die bei den Konsumenten etabliert werden sollen, bestimmen die derzeitigen Wettbewerbsbedingungen auf den gesattigten Markten. Im Jahr 2009 waren allein 778.008 Marken beim Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt registriert. Die Anzahl der Informationen, der Markenbotschaften und der Kanale, uber die die Massen von Marken und Produkten an die Konsumenten kommuniziert werden, uberflutet tagtaglich die Sinne der Verbraucher und erhoht stetig deren Sattigungsgrad an Produkten und Informationen. Die Konsumenten jedoch haben im Laufe der Zeit gelernt, Informationen, die fur sie nicht von Interesse sind und keinen Nutzen haben, unberucksichtigt zu lassen: sie schlicht zu ignorieren. Diese Umstande ergeben sich als Folge des wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels unserer Zeit. Fortwahrend findet in den Lebenswelten unserer Gesellschaft ein Prozess der Modernisierung und der Individualisierung statt, welcher von der Modifikation und dem Zerfall traditioneller Strukturen und Werte im Arbeits- und Privatleben gekennzeichnet ist. Die zunehmende Flexibilitat in zahlreichen Lebensbereichen und die Expansion der Kommunikationsmoglichkeiten gewahren auf der einen Seite erweiterte Entfaltungsspielraume und Wahlmoglichkeiten, auf der anderen Seite resultieren daraus jedoch auch Verunsicherung, Uberlastung und Orientierungslosigkeit sowie die Suche nach Sicherheit, Entlastung und Nachhaltigkeit (vgl. Die Sinus-Milieus(r)"). Dazu kommen tiefgreifende Veranderungen in der medialen Digitalisierung: die Konsumenten sind keine Aussenstehenden des Kommunikationsprozesses mehr, sondern konnen Informationen und Botschaften auf vielfaltigen Wegen mitgestalten, komm